The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-29
News of the Week.

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acres of land in Louisiana.
The total number of immigrants who ar
rived in the United States last year was 1885,
! 755, against 326, Isl in 1885.
An epidemic of whooping cough prevails il
Hookset, New Hampshire, and two deaths
from the disease have occurred.
The Secretary of the Treasury on Saturday
issued call for thirteen millions of Three
per cents. The call will mature on March 1st
j. II. Engel, an old citizen of Sunbury
Penna., died on Saturday of blood poisoning
the result of dog bite received the week be
fore.
| An epidemic of maarial fever and measle:
is reported at Tarentum, Penna. More than
100 serious cases are reported, with deaths
from Saturday until Tuesday.
1t is said the local labor agitators in Chica
go are organizing an eight hour movement o.
greater magnitude than that which failed last
year, to be inaugurated on May list.
A keg of powder exploded in the shaft Of
the Coon Valley Mine, near Des Moines
Iowa, on Monday evening, injuring four men
so badly that their recovery is doubtful.
Three boilers at Harvey's paper mill, in
Wellsburg, West Virginia, exploded on
Monday, wrecking part of the building and
killing two men. Three others were injured.
Mrs Daniel A. Voorhees,, wife of Senator
Voorhees,, of Indiana, died on Friday of last
week in Washington, after a short illness, OF
acute peritonitis. She was 55 years of age.
w. d. Bate, Democrat. was on Tuesday
elected U. S. Senator by the Tennessee Leg
islature, in joint convention. He received 81
votes to 43 for Hughes, Republican, and
scattered.
The h-license law of Missouri, increas-
ing liquor licenses from $50 to minimum of
$3.50 and a maximum or $1,000 a year, has
increased the revenue from tEis source from
S547, 900 to 81 ,S42, 900 year.
The total value Of the exports from the
United States during 1886 was $719, 2S9, 666,
against 1888, 259, 1913 in 1885. The total value
of our imports last year was 1868, Az ,2l0,
against S5S7, 1868, 675 the preceding year.
Experts from the Pennsylvania oil regions
say there are indications of immense quanti-
ties of oil and natural gas in the vicinity of
Roanoke City, Virginia. Borings will soon
be commenced by company of capitalists
The Supreme lodge of the Knights of Pyth
las is to meet in June, 1888, in Chicago,
where 100000 knights are expected to be in
attendance, and some contracts for hotel
accommodations are already being entered
into.
Terrible suffering is reported among the
Indians on the Colville reservation in WASH
ington Territory. Small pox exists with great
fatality; deep snow has prevented hunting,
and the Government supplies have been mad
equate.
simpson Harris died in Putnam county,
Indiana, on Friday, at the alleged age of 100
years. 1t is said he was born in North Caro-
lima in 1878, cast his first vote for Jefferson
for President in 1901, and voted at every
Presidential election since.
The State Department has received des-
patches from Buenos Ayres saying that the
deaths from Asiatic cholera in that city in
November last were ninety. three, and that
business is virtually suspended there. The
death rate in Rosario has sometimes reached
fifty per day.
A waiter in San Luis Obispo hotel the
other day waited on a table where there were
a number of gentlemen speaking five differ
ent tongues-English, French, Italian, Span
ish and German-and he spoke to each in
his native language, talking either iuentiy.
San Francisco Call
In New York city, during last vel, Acre si1-ere
Ter1nG2orts = eases 5'slieoA, with two
deaths, ~ = cases and death the previ,
Gus week; rs cases of diphtheria and 40
deaths, against Ill cases and Al deaths last
week; 651 cases of measles and 6S deaths,
against GIL cases and y deaths.
The Hawaiian Gazette, received in SaL
Francisco, says new island has been discov-
cred in the Pacific ocean in latitude 10 25/
south, longitude 143o 26/ east. 1t is two and
one half miles long, and covered with trees.
The Gazette says it has been named Allison
Island, but by whom it was discovered and
named is not known.
1t is reported that the police of Wilkes
barre, Penna., have discovered a regularly
organized gang of robbers, the oldest of whom
is IL and the youngest years of age. They
are about twelve in number, and six of them
have been arrested. They are said to have
robbed at least fifty merchants, and their pill
ferings are believed to aggregate $4,000.
4 declaration for the incorporation OF the
Selma Land Improvement and Furnace Com
pany, with capital of $4,000, 900, was filed
last week in Selma, Alabama. The company
propose to build a standard gauge railroad
into the Cahaba coal and iron fields, to erect
one steel and two iron furnaces, to build roll
ing mills and establish kindred enterprises.
Dennis McGurl, proprietor of a soap facto-
ry, in Chicago, his son, Dennis, Jr., and five
of his employees were arrested last week on
the charge of stealing hogs from trains on the
asserted that no fewer than $500 hogs, valued
at over $4,000, have been stolen during the
last two years, for use in McGurl's factory.
In the Senate of New York on Thursday, a
resolution was unanimously adopted, instruct
ing the TaxationCommittee to examine the sys.
TEN of Pennsylvania and other States, and re-
port in thirty days advisable changes in the
State tax laws, especially with view to an
income tax, further corporation taxes, and
the exemption of real property from State
taxation.
Mondays dispatches said: Severe floods
are reported at Buffalo, New York, and in
the Wabash Valley, Indiana, as result of
the January thaw At Buffalo, nine tenths
of the Thirteenth Ward are submerged, and
the destruction of property is large. The
flood in the Wabash river has swept away
number of bridges, and, it is feared, several
dwellings.
Brooklyn police, in a search for burglars
on Monday, discovered six young men, who
committed the crime, concealed in cave
beneath the cellar of glass house, and II
bags of flower and some canned goods taken
from the store were found there. A floor of
boards had been laid in the place, and some
berths built up on the sides. 1t is believed
that the gang have committed series of petty
crimes.
Dispatches from Brisbane, the capital of
Queensland, state that that colony has been
swept by fearful cyclone, accompanied by a
rainfall of such extraordinary copiousness that
twenty inches of water fell in a short time.
The result has been disastrous floods. In the
city of Brisbane some of the thoroughfares
are submerged to depth of twenty feet.
The city is entirely cut off by the floods from
its suburbs. The reports say that many per-
sons have been drowned.
About 200 cases of giant powder, in transit
on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. exploded
half mile west of Fort Scott, Kansas, on
Tuesday evening The car containing the
powder was blown to atoms, and Is other
freight cars out of % in the train were COM
pletely demolished. Scott Hooker, brake.
man, was killed. The neighboring city was
shaken as if by an earthquake, and ten thou
sand dollars worth of glass was smashed in
the central and western sections. 1t is said
that window glass was broken at Nevada, Is
miles distant,